Talk about the game, resource allocation, or any Project Management topic. (The developer of
this game is one person who only speaks English, discussions in other languages will require
the use of Google Translate, and the quality of the translation might be very bad indeed,
I apologize)
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My rationale was to allocate a fast, reliable (although a little bit more expensive) team member for the first two activities on the critical path and a low-cost member for the last half of the project. I preferred to allocate the average workers for the project tasks that had a certain slack. While assigning workers to the tasks one must pay attention to avoid overallocating the human resources.
Surprisingly enough, I was able to finish this assignment from the first try. This happened not necessarily because I am a great PM, as the website message says, but because of chance. I chose to get some help from the Lady Luck. Without this my project would have been over budget or much closer to the $800K threshold.
The random event generated was a lower cost Task 5. This does not happen very often in projects because in the Project Management world the tendency is to finish projects late and over budget.
Overall, the PM Game was a great initiative and I hope the developer will add more scenarios with different levels of difficulty.
https://iddeas2ponder.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/simulations-in-elearning/
Thank you so much for this interesting game. I have played it myself and what you learn is really rewarding.
I have directed our group of PM students in their module manual to play this game as one of their activities (provided a link). A very good trigger for discussion. I have also captured a screen shot of the results I got after playing and use the capture in the module guide with the following source reference:
Source: Robc. 2016. The Project Management Game: Test your Skills as a Project Manager. http://thatpmgame.com/ [Date Accessed: 28 January 2016]
Looking forward to play a few more time and other of your games.
Thank you.
Siyanda